Jonathon Gruber Tells the Truth About the American People and is Savaged

     I know he committed the cardinal sin of not singing peons to the brilliance of the American people-who suggested they were dumb. In fact, what he said has been taken out of context-but you don't have to have context-unless you criticize Rush Limbaugh.

      http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/11/rush-limbaughs-definition-of-slander.html

      After the election when these brilliant oh so wonderful people basically turned the Senate along with the House to the termites-the GOP is the termites which should be obvious to anyone who has a clue to what is going on in Congress, which doesn't include most of the voters-I repeated something that Michael Kinsley once said: Democracy can goof. 

       http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/11/democracy-can-goof-and-last-night-it-did.html

        Now we get more polling news that shows how perverse the understanding of the voters is:

        "We keep hearing — from pundits, and Republicans and Democrats alike — that last week’s electoral outcome shows that “the American people” just want the parties to work together and make government function again."

        "But this isn’t quite right. Yes, a lot of Americans want more generic “compromise.” Democrats and independents want compromise. But Republican voters in particular don’t want compromise."

         "A new National Journal/Heartland Monitor poll finds that surprisingly few Americans who identify with either party think unified government under their own party would make their lives better. Instead, a majority of Americans thinks they would benefit more from “Democrats and Republicans compromising more to solve problems in Washington.”

        "But look at the breakdown, provided by Ron Brownstein:

The belief that more cooperation could produce greater benefits united groups that often diverge on political questions, including 53 percent of whites, 58 percent of non-whites, 66 percent of Democrats, and 53 percent of independents. The big exception: just 42 percent of Republican partisans said they thought they would benefit much from more compromise — a reflection both of the resistance to Obama and the demands for ideological purity among many GOP activists.

       http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/11/14/morning-plum-democrats-want-compromise-republicans-dont-thats-bad-for-democrats/

        This is how Obama and the Dems keep getting blame for the GOP's obstruction. If we had a non-perverse GOP this preference would make sense. However, that Dem and Independent voters don't see that we don't have such a thing shows again that you won't lose so often underestimating the intelligence of the American people.  

       I mean it's true that we should want a Congress that is not obstructionist and dysfunctional, however, the problem is not that Obama and the Dems won't compromise with the GOP but the reverse.